Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? • Hacker News Board

Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

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Post by solarkraft » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 12:57 PM UTC

Nokinside wrote: post #24

jacquesm wrote: post #10

It's still regular for me but if true this will probably be the last straw for me. It's already absolutely impossible to send someone a link to a pdf you've found through google, this would make it impossible to send any link. That bloody wrapper is also a fine piece of shit. Search engines should link to content, not appropriate that content, hide who supplies it or mess with the links.

Have you tried these Firefox addons: Google search link fix https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search... Google Search URL Fixup https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...

It's not worth it. Just use DuckDuckGo or Searx.

Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

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Post by quantumwoke » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 12:57 PM UTC

When I noticed this happen to my account, I thought 'this is it'. We survived (sort of) the adpocalypse - time for the urlpocalypse?

Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

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Post by war1025 » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 12:58 PM UTC

I've used Yahoo for search since basically forever. My understanding is its backed by Bing these days. It's really not bad. Don't understand why everyone sticks to google other than marketing and momentum.

Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

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Post by dooglius » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 12:58 PM UTC

asar wrote: post #12

I think it's a little too early to come to a full conclusion here. Google is constantly testing layout changes in SERPs and it seems like OP ended up in a test. The thread is 4 weeks old and I haven't seen or read anything on these changes anywhere but on this thread. I still think Google's general direction is clear with more webmaster incentives for structured data, amp and also Google just straight up answering qu…

I just tested and I see it as well

Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

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Post by Frost1x » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 12:58 PM UTC

t34543 wrote: post #11

bobsoap wrote: post #2

Remember AOL, anyone? And so, we've come full circle.

Keywords are back. Everything old is new again.

Computing technology goes in circles it seems. We're also back to the mainframe era where we push all our computing to remote resources. I recall an infamous Apple ad shunning IBM as big brother near the beginning of the PC revolution. Now we have the illusion of generalized computing tied to all sorts of external services.

Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

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Post by foxes » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 1:05 PM UTC

Time to remind everyone about searx [0]. It can use google results and you can run your own instance.

[0] https://searx.me/

[1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

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Post by johnchristopher » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 1:08 PM UTC

djmips wrote: post #30

johnchristopher wrote: post #19

A year or two ago I noticed that Youtube links were messed up in the search result so maybe the writing has been on the wall for a real long time. For instance, if you google https://www.google.com/search?q=jimmy+eat+world+555 you get a thumbnail with a Youtube URL linking to the actual video but as soon as you right or left click the link it's changed to a google.com link with a lot of parameters. Makes it super fru…

I tested that and when I right clicked the link was just the raw YouTube link. Also tried in incognito and same result. Interesting.

Here's a video of what it looks like on my end https://streamable.com/rdppj (ff, incognito, can't remember if I ever checked it out in Chrome). The status bar shows the updated link as I right or left click on it. I then copy paste the new URL to show it leads to the Youtube link.

Well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU-TZiVVaTE" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AOvVaw3lnl6zJ37POHhefQnIow95','','2ahUKEwiZ0PDWzMvlAhVDaFAKHQGODhYQyCkwAHoECAkQBQ','','',event)">

Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

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Post by josteink » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 1:08 PM UTC

war1025 wrote: post #28

josteink wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably also the url bar from Chrome, soon to be replaced by a Google keywords-bar.

If only there were an alternative browser...

If there were, these users wouldn’t get to know about it in their current browser, using their current default search engine.

You can be sure if that.

Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

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Post by jacquesm » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 1:08 PM UTC

asar wrote: post #12

I think it's a little too early to come to a full conclusion here. Google is constantly testing layout changes in SERPs and it seems like OP ended up in a test. The thread is 4 weeks old and I haven't seen or read anything on these changes anywhere but on this thread. I still think Google's general direction is clear with more webmaster incentives for structured data, amp and also Google just straight up answering qu…

It's out in the wild. It never should have passed the first level of internal discussion.

Re: Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?

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Post by ahbyb » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 1:08 PM UTC

I don't care. Usually URLs are long and don't appear in their entirety. They are also links, so it's hard (or almost impossible) to copy them using a computer and impossible to copy them using a mobile.